A Bountiful Harvest

…give thanks for the quantity and and quality of American composers for the pipe organ.

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Music played in the program

DALE WOOD: 5 Hymn Preludes (Foundation-McKee-Thompson-Candler-St. Theodolph) James Welch (1987 Schoenstein/Sts. Peter & Paul Church, San Francisco, CA) Welch 552

PAUL MANZ: 3 Hymn Improvisations (Wachet auf; Seelenbräutigam; Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern) –John Schwandt (1965 Schlicker/Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, MN) Pipedreams Archive (4. 10/2/16)

HENRY MARTIN: Prelude & Fugue in g# (premiere). GEORGE BAKER: Lamento (Prelude on Michael) –Stephen Tharp (2005 Glatter-Götz/Rosales Opus 35/Augustana Lutheran Church, West Saint Paul, MN) Pipedreams Archive (4. 11/21/14)

CALVIN HAMPTON: 1st Suite for Organ (Fanfares-Antiphon-Toccata) –Bryan Dunnewald (2014 Skinner-Kegg/Bryn Athyn Cathedral, Bryn Athyn, PA) Dunnewald Studio (r. 5/15/15)

LIBBY LARSEN: Tambourines, fr Aspects of Glory –Ji-yoen Choi (1959 Schlicker-1999 Dobson/Chapel of the Resurrection, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN) Naxos 8.555367

ANONYMOUS: Music from Caspar Schaffner’s Book (Lancaster, PA, c. 1790) –Philip Cooper (1865 Krauss/Union Church, Huff Church, PA) AFKA 564

GARY DAVISON: Trumpet Rondo on Laudes Domini; Anthem, Zion, at thy shining gates –Wells Cathedral Choir/Matthew Owens, director; Jonathan Vaughn (1974 Harrison/Wells Cathedral, England) Regent 452

DANIEL GAWTHROP: O Jerusalem (Symphony for Organ) –David Pickering (1996 Wolff/Bates Recital Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS) Grace Notes Media 0701